Medicine: Pharmacopoeia

Every five years a Pharmacopoeial Convention revises the official list
of drugs used by doctors in prescribing and by druggists in filling
prescriptions. This year's book adds 40 new drugs and preparations
and takes out 192. Some additions: aspirin, salvarsan, carbon
tetrachlorid used for hookworm, some local anesthetics and a surgical
solution of chlorinated soda, known as the Carrell-Dakin solution
that received notoriety during the war. Whiskey and brandy, taken out
of the last Pharmacopoeia, are put back in this one.